Victory didn’t come until the final moments of the close fought game, in which a razor-thin lead see-sawed back and forth all night.

In the end, Steph Curry’s vaunted 3-throw skills didn’t materialize in the crunch, and after Cleveland took a three point lead in the dying seconds, LeBron James put the final nail in the coffin sinking one basket on a pair of free throws.

Golden State wasn’t able to answer before the buzzer.

It’s a crushing defeat for a team being described as a generational phenomenon. Golden state had a dream season losing only nine games, then lost nine in the playoffs including tonight.